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The Medallions were originally formed in Los Angeles, California in 1954, with 16 year-old Vernon Green singing and writing original songs like Buick '59 (five years ahead of it's time because he wanted the song to have a 5-year shelf/radio play life). He also wrote The Letter (B side to Buick '59), and by 1959 Magic Mountain. These songs charted well on the West Coast, and in several Eastern cities. The Medallions were the first vocal group to sign with Dootsie William's Dootone Records in July of 1954. Green's famous recitation on The Letter contained the nonsense lyrics, 'sweet words of pismotality' and 'the pulpitudes of love,' which was later picked up by Steve Miller as 'the pompitudes of love' - which became the title of a 1990s film. Mr. Green passed away on Christmas Eve of 2000. Some members of The Medallions continue onward with this modern, authentic sound reconstituted, beginning with eleven fresh digital recordings including remakes of some of their classics as well as other new and old 'oldies'.